Tuesday 20 May 2014

Sunday 18th May

This was a day that was supposed to have better conditions that Saturday, but that didn't quite live up to the cross country promise. We switched ends on the grass strip but still had a healthy crosswind!

Graham set off on task again in the ASG and went to Basingstoke & back, reporting that he didn't particularly enjoy the conditions. Alan Langlands agreed when he got back from his flight to Blenheim & back, commenting that it was hard to stay up, and that lift was very patchy. Paul Noonan, Alistair F and Eric flew their gliders too, and that was it for the single seaters. 

On the club side we were again very busy with Instructor Renewals, and Mike M, John W and Pete all got signed off as Instructors again having been put through their paces all day. Bruno ran a day course in amongst our chaos (sorry Bruno), and managed to fit in some additional flying with Sam & Martin P, and Tony Tayler too. Clive took some friends flying in the K13 & moterglider, and we also did some trial lessons. Nigel flew the Falke, and a few folks took flights in the K13's when they were free. Thanks to all who drove the winch and retrieved gliders - and there was a lot of retrieving this weekend with all the cable break practice!  Thanks also to Rowan for doing a temporary repair on the crack in the canopy of CCC on Saturday evening so that we could all fly her on Sunday. We really did need all of our two seaters this weekend!